DATAPLAN Computer Technology Small Cooperative

Further development and service of Videoton computers, hardware and software development, later PC distribution and service, system integration.

Development and service of VIDEOTON R10, R11 computers and their peripherals for the entire computer fleet belonging to the Hungarian People's Army and the Soviet Ministry of Railways and Energy.

In VIDEOTON machines, replacing ferrite memories with self-developed lead-in memory cards and fitting 4×80 MB hard drives instead of 2.5 MB MOM disks or Bulgarian disks was a breakthrough on the market during the COCOM period.

Production and sale of approximately 500 units of the TIS-86 Z80-based secretarial system, even before the advent of Microsoft, IBM PCs, and Macintosh.

Development, production and commissioning of a measurement data collection system for the Paks secondary circuit cooling system (300 processors, real-time processing of data from thousands of measurement points).

Other special hardware developments and their control.

Production and installation of Touch-Info advertising points in hotels, post offices, and highway rest areas; these were the first touch-screen controlled systems.

Development and operational support of the production and distribution systems of 10 dairy companies.

MOFÉM, ORION, GANZ shipyard, etc. introduction of production management, inventory management, accounting systems (SAP did not exist yet at that time) delivered and installed together with PC-386 networks, with full service.

With the release of the IBM PC, PC distribution also began, along with the opening of rural stores. In 1994, about 10,000 units/year were sold, servicing companies and retail sales through stores, PC service and computer networking, and a wide range of enterprise management software distribution.

It started as a small cooperative and, under the provisions of the Companies Act, was transformed into a limited liability company with the employees owning shares.

As a result of the Yeltsin coup in Moscow and the dissolution of COCOM, Soviet market relations ceased. Czechoslovak relations were shattered by the “Trianonization” because the Czechs refused to take over a truckload of manufactured peripheral subsystems at the Brno fair. The stuck stock tied up significant funds. During the period of debts, MATÁV did not pay for 1,000 computers for months, as a result of which Chinese and American component suppliers terminated the delivery contracts. The commercial banks of the time did not undertake to provide bridging loans to help finance working capital, so PC distribution also gradually became stuck. By 1995, the company's financial reserves were exhausted. After the bankruptcy of Kontrax, Controll, and Microsystem, DataPlan could not afford to finance its turnover despite falling margins.

The company ceased to exist around the mid-1990s.

In 1983, it was among the first private IT companies and in the eighties and early nineties it was among the TOP 10 private IT companies.

Dataplan was primarily involved in the further development and servicing of the R10 and R11 computers of several Soviet ministries and the Hungarian Armed Forces. In the mid-eighties, in addition to servicing VIDEOTON machines, it also developed secretarial systems based on its own Z80 computer, a meteorological satellite receiver, a Paksra measurement data collection system, and enterprise management systems for industrial companies. From the early nineties, it sold and serviced tens of thousands of PCs nationwide.